Due to arrive today, but my case and tempered glass screen protector arrive Friday. I wonder if I can survive the holiday without opening the box?
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I received a notification that they were back in stock about 30 mins ago....still has the email me when available button :/
Open it up!! Post some camera samples!
Make sure you apply for the free continuum dock.
I'm looking forward for your impressions with the 950XL. What phone are you upgrading from?
Initial impressions: WOW.
Long story short, it's been the worst experience with a new phone I've ever had.
Hardware is awesome, software is terrible. Don't buy one unless you want to test some seriously pre-beta level software.
My impressions have significantly changed.
Long story short, it's been the worst experience with a new phone I've ever had. My attempt to reset and restore has broken things further. I'm about to send it back and tell Microsoft to $##$ off, but I'm waiting to hear back from Lumia Support before I forget Windows phone forever.
Hardware is awesome, software is terrible. Don't buy one unless you want to test some seriously pre-beta level software.
Yeah, with no context, I would just call PEBKAC.
Honestly, it seems like a lemon.
I highly doubt the software would ship that broken.
I wish it was PEBKAC, that would be easier to fix.
Initially the OS seemed much nicer and more refined than WP8.1, but it had frequent issues where apps or settings (which are treated like apps) would crash on open or when changing an option in the setting. Sometimes it would happen multiple times in a row, meaning I would have to open the particular setting menu 2-3 or more times to even have a chance to change a setting.
I could live with that, since it will very likely be worked out with updates to the settings and/or the OS. I did, however, notice my wifi performance was terrible. I verified my router is working properly, tested with multiple other wireless devices, and determined it was the phone's fault. On my Airport Extreme, I was pulling 200+ms latency and only 20-30 mbit on my 125 mbit connection. My old Lumia 1520 consistently achieved <15ms latency and around 90-110 mbit depending on my distance from the router.
I did a soft reset and it did nothing. I tried a hard reset, which also did nothing, but for some reason broke my messaging app. It would now close upon loading consistently. Since the app fully closed itself, I could not hard-close the app. I tried, once again, a soft reset and a hard reset with no fix after either. I decided to do a reset and restore to try and fix the messaging app and the wifi performance.
Upon initiating the reset, the phone simply shutoff and stayed off for several minutes. I was concerned, so I attempted to turn the phone on. It showed the Microsoft splash screen, followed by the Windows loading logo, then shut off. After 5-6 attempts to turn it on, finally the reset screen came up and it began to restore the phone. After the progress bar finished, the phone shut off and did not turn back on again. Repeat the previous procedure, and the new phone setup finally came up after 3-4 attempts to turn the phone on.
Prior to resetting, I saved my contacts and messages using the new "Contacts+Messages Backup" app that was being advertised by Lumia Help on twitter. I saved them to my SD card, and chose to not format it during the reset. After bringing the phone back up, setting up the initial settings, and logging into my Microsoft account, I attempted to restore my contacts and messages. On the first attempt, it crashed and exited the app in the middle of restoring the messages. I re-opened it and initiated a restore again, and it crashed again. I tried changing some settings for the restore, and could not get it to work.
I gave up, and figured whatever messages and contacts I could re-sync from my onedrive would probably be fine. I looked in my contacts to find it added several copies of each contact I had attempted to restore. When I tried to delete them, the People app crashed. Opening it to look, none of them were deleted. Repeat this multiple times, and the app crashes consistently. I can't delete the duplicate contacts.
Going into my messaging app, hoping I can at least use the phone until updates come around, my contacts have been fragmented. It separated the Skype and SMS contacts for each person I talk to. (Previously they were unified in a single thread, and I was able to select SIM 1 or Skype to send messages to). It would be a relatively simple fix to merge the contacts again, however I noticed I now no longer have an option to message the skype contacts. It defaults to SIM 1, does not allow me to change it to Skype, and when I try to send a message it tells me the contact information is invalid.
All this while I correctly receive Skype messages in the very threads that are broken. I tried hard-closing the app, soft and hard resets with no success. I signed out of my skype and microsoft account and re-signed in to them with no success. Wifi performance is still terrible, I can't message through skype, my contacts list is all kinds of whacked, and everything still crashes frequently.
Tell me that's a case of PEBKAC.
I'm trying another reset, but instead of restoring I am setting the phone up as a new device.
Yikes, that sounds terrible! Did you buy it from Microsoft directly or your carrier? I would have probably run into wherever sold it to me and demanded a replacement.
I bought it directly from the Microsoft Store unsubsidized. I looked into returning it and since I purchased it during the holiday season I have until 2/1/2016 to request a return, so I think I will wait a few weeks and see if any updates come around to fix the crashing, poor wifi performance, and other bugs.
I really want to like this phone. I just hope Microsoft can make it likable soon enough.
I have the 950. Certainly not without it's bugs, I've had some issues with the new messaging app myself, but definitely not as bad as your experience.